Accepted!! (at around 5:30 pm)
Global Health B.S.
Keck School of Medicine
Junior rising applicant 3.91 GPA
no SGR
@yeayea8 It won’t. USC considers your first choice and then your second choice if your first choice doesn’t accept you.
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USC gives out acceptances in May, June, and July for both Fall and Spring admission. I applied last year and I know many applicants who got into Spring at the end of May. However, there were still some who heard back in June or July but admitted to Fall. Thus, Fall or Spring acceptances will happen whenever in May, June, and July.
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There will be Spring admits. USC gives out Spring offers as a way to control its Fall’s class size, and USC has been doing this (Spring admission) for years.
For those who are wondering the difference between Fall and Spring admits, I want to note that Fall admits are not necessarily better than Spring admits.
USC treats Spring admission as other colleges’ “Waitlist”, so people who are waitlisted are not necessarily worse in academics or any other areas than those who are admitted.
I believe that whether you get into Fall or Spring strongly depends on luck too. It depends on the people who are viewing your application that day and how they think of you. Other than grades, their perceptions of you could be biased and highly subjective. Also, you do not get to control the group of people who are viewing your application (Example: On this day, group A might reject you while group B might accept you, but only one group will be assigned to view your application).
Regardless of freshman admission or transfer admission, luck comes into play and it could be a deal-breaker between Fall admission and Spring admission, or between Spring admission and rejection. This probably explains why students sometimes got into an Ivy League but got rejected by UCLA or USC. Admission can be random sometimes because different admission officers favor different types of students.
She got the email a little after 8pm we are in Miami. She is a 3.76GPA Phi Theta Kappa student. She had stellar recommendations. She put together a very professional looking portfolio. I hope you hear back soon!!! I haven’t seen any other Roski decisions on here.
I’m SCA and still haven’t received anything. I also had an interview first week of April. Did anyone receive spring grade request for SCA?
@patpat29 I had an interview as well. No SGR, just an email from assistant admission counselor asking to see my in-progress coursework.
I still have nothing and my withdrawal button is still alive…
Am i gonna reject…? Ugh so sad…
I applied to Viterbi CS (junior) from CCC…?
@hermit1214 I think theres a chance then right? Cause not too many people heard back from SCA. Like they might ask us for SGR since no one else got asked as well from the SCA. This is probably just the first wave.
I was accepted to Dornsife Physics.
No spring grade was requested.
May 21 8pm.
GPA3.92, entering junior from Stony Brook University.
How come I can’t see any financial aid information?
Accepted into Viterbi School of Engineering
No SGR
Mechanical Engineering; 3.98 GPA
Junior Status
Entering from CC
I was SGR’d awhile ago so I’m not really worried about not hearing back yet but I haven’t noticed anyone in narrative studies being accepted yet. Is that a major with a relatively small transfer class or have they just not gotten to that major yet?
Any chance of a wave tonight?
got accepted yesterday as a bio major into dornsife. Never got an email notification
can someone who has maybe been tracking usc transfer decision release patterns for the last few years let me know if usc releases more than one wave of acceptances for dornsife? i’m not trying to sound conceited or anything, but i thought my stats and essays made me a pretty competitive applicant, and i haven’t heard a peep from usc since submitting my application, and i didn’t get anything yesterday. my portal hasn’t changed and my withdraw button is still there. it’s hard to not be discouraged, but if anyone has a little more insight or information they’d be willing to share for me, and everyone else in the same boat as me, it’d be extremely appreciated 
@ejordan02 I’ll be honest with you, I’m sure we all feel the way you do. Everyone here has competitive stats, that’s why we are here. With that being said, we only need to go through the pain of being rejected once (if that is our fate). There is no reason to dwell on it now.
I’m not sure how it moves forward from here. I have wanted to go to USC since I was 13 years old-- I’m now 30. This has been a lifetime for me. I’m very overcome with emotions by all of it. I’m happy to be in this conversation, and if that is the closest I ever get to USC, I’ll have to accept that.
But I know this isn’t over yet, for any of us. I know how it feels, I truly do. I had to go through this last year as well. It is TERRIBLE. But until you receive your rejection, it’s still possible to be accepted. Believe in yourself because if you don’t how can they?
Can someone confirm for me – it’s a requirement that all transfer students must take TWO General Ed courses at USC Dornsife right? There is no way around this I assume? So if you have satisfied all 8 course requirements, you still have to take 2 courses at Dornsife once admitted, right?
@Windsky - which major in SDA are you applying to? I haven’t seen many other SDA applicants and haven’t seen any SDA acceptances or rejections on here so far. Hoping SDA is just slower than the other schools.
@sagaciousforever Consider a separate posting re: P/NP concerns. Many transfers in this post are too excited or concerned with transfer issues to respond. Maybe @CADREAMIN or others can provide some insights on P/NP at USC on a separate post.
Btw, my S transferred to USC 2 years ago from a UC. This coming Fall he is going to be a senior. He had the P/NP dilemma. Since he got all A’s, that was a non issue. Older S is a recent UW Foster grad, working at a Big 4 and just got his CPA license. He, like many others, first had to be admitted to each of the Big 4 summer leadership program (a 3 day program in the summer prior to the following summer internship). Many Big 4 summer interns are selected from the participants of the 3 day summer leadership program. The summer leadership and internship programs are very competitive. Summer interns are almost certain to secure job offers after graduation. In the West Coast, the Big 4 disproportionately hire more from targeted schools (UCB Haas, UW Foster, USC Marshall/Leventhal, UCLA bus. econ. and UCSB accounting econ.) than other schools. You are in good company at Marshall.